Honeymoon toast

With the aviation and tourism industries still a tad gobsmacked at the immensity of last week’s nuptials between Qantas and Emirates, the airlines’ chief pilots,
Alan Joyce
and
Tim Clark,
threw a reception on Thursday night for key stakeholders and other assorted scallywags to help it all sink in. Collingwood president
Eddie McGuire
MC’d (Emirates has long been shirt sponsor of the Magpies), while Nine Network managing director
Jeff “Buckets"
Browne put in an appearance minus his red setter. Also slurping the 2000 Taittinger blanc-des-blancs was Buckets’ and Eddie Everywhere’s Nine colleague
Richard “Tricky Dicky"
Wilkins,
Kerry Stokes
’ Seven Group apparatchik Andy Kay, Crown Melbourne First Lady
Ann Peacock
,
Michael “ah the serenity"
Caton and German Women’s Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe.

Sydney Airports chairman
Max “The Axe"
Moore-Wilton was in top form complaining about an alarmingly thorough experience he had at Canadian customs. Rear Window also clinked glasses with Carnival Australia CEO
Ann Sherry
and NSW Transport Minister
Gladys Berejiklian
(more on her later). And rounding out the celeb contingent were of course the human ponytail
Neil Perry
(more on him later, too), model Jesinta Campbell, Qantas ambassador
Miranda Kerr
and her actor husband
Orlando Bloom
.

Taking the podium, Joyce was in a plane-talking mood. “Tim and I had a shower together on the [Emirates] A380. Fully clothed I assure you." AJ was also poured a Guinness in the business-class bar but unfortunately wasn’t allowed to drink it. Rear Window sure hopes it didn’t go to waste.